AAHWC Newsletter

Telephone Lifestyle Coaching Effectiveness  One-on-one telephone health coaching is gaining popularity. Case in point: the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention has implemented a version of telephone lifestyle coaching to address some of the health issues many veterans are currently experiencing.  In fact, a randomized control trial titled “A Coaching by Telephone Intervention for Veterans and Care Team Engagement” (ACTIVATE), was born out of the health issues veterans were facing related to diet and lifestyle (1). The study’s purpose was to determine the effectiveness of telephone lifestyle coaching.   Researchers [...]

AAHWC Member Update Dear Members: As we near the end of our first term in our AAHWC, I felt that it was important to connect with our members in a more personal way. To review the purpose and goals of the organization and to get your feedback so that the next term would be even more beneficial in serving each of you. Our original plan was to contact each of you by phone. We wanted to connect with each of our members in person to know how to better direct the association in the future. We [...]

Introducing LIFT Christ's Way of Coaching The NAD Health Summit in Lexington, KY, USA provided the perfect venue for the new Adventist Association of Health and Wellness Coaching (AAHWC) to introduce Health Partner - Jesus’ way of coaching.  The Health Partner program grew out of the coaching community initially as a means of making our health programs more successful.  We needed to add ongoing personal support to the information given, which is Jesus’ way of coaching.  By doing this, we could not only help people achieve lasting lifestyle changes but also develop lasting friends through the [...]